Resources for HR professionals
Webinars, guides and blogs tackling the hot topics and challenges facing HR professionals today.
Mental health and working from home thirteen important ways to support your employees
Failure to support employees’ mental health while working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic could mean declines in productivity at a crucial period for your business. Don’t worry, our guide looks at thirteen ways…
A simple guide to the paperless business office
Cut through the jargon and find out:Why to go paperlessWhere all the paper comes fromHow to transition to paper-free systems
There is no new normal; how can businesses navigate the next normal?
How can businesses navigate the next normal
Payroll
New law protects furloughed workers from reduced redundancy pay
A new law to support workers has been introduced, following reports that some employers are reducing redundancy pay for their furloughed staff.While the number of employers making cuts…
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Five ways to stay connected when working remotely
As we tackle our second national lockdown, many organisations are likely planning for employees to continue working remotely for the long term.Employees tend to fall into two camps…
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Here to Help: Becoming COVID-secure – what does this mean?
The government has provided a list of guidelines to help companies make sure their workplaces are safe for employees to return to. They’re calling this being ‘COVID-secure’.Encouraging businesses…
What is asset management?
Businesses of all shapes and sizes purchase, replace and acquire new assets every day. As there is such a regular flow of assets entering and leaving the business, the…
Payroll
As COVID hits profits, can law firms make savings in HR and payroll?
More than eight in ten top law firms are concerned that COVID will stop them achieving their financial ambitions, a major survey of the legal sector by PWC…
HR
What is voluntary redundancy?
With the economic landscape facing more uncertainty as each day passes, business owners across the UK are being tasked with some incredibly difficult decisions. As small businesses (SMEs) in…
5 reasons why your organisation must move your financial services to the cloud
Cloud financial services offer undeniable benefits across your team. Today, as many workforces continue to operate remotely as a result of COVID-19, this level of flexibility is no longer a ‘nice to…
Furlough extended until April 2021
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has just announced that the furlough scheme will be extended for an additional month until the end of April 2021.This scheme has already provided over…
How to increase digital adoption? Introducing our new IRIS HR Professional feature, WalkMe
Digital Adoption typically means achieving a state in which users can utilise their digital tools to the fullest extent.While some interchange the term with software adoption, there are…
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IRIS Live: Day in the life of a large business
Running an company can be a complex task, with multiple areas of focus internally and externally throughout the day. Every company is different, yet their goals are often the same.
Hear from your fellow business leader peers as we discuss the technology that runs their companies through each day and how the right technology partner and relationship is critical to their success.
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IRIS Live: HR in the next normal
Though surviving and overcoming the hit to profitability from the initial wave of the COVID-19 crisis will be at the forefront of the minds of all businesses, all HR Professionals know that compliance with the latest health and safety regulations must come as the top priority, the first step to returning to work and being ‘COVID-secure’.
In this session we will bring you the latest HR legislation news and the essential points of the latest guidance and what your organisation needs to consider.
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IRIS Live: IRIS in the next normal
The coronavirus pandemic has had a global impact, and IRIS hasn’t been exempt. We have had to make both reactive and pro-active changes as we adapt our own business to the next normal.
Hear from our CEO and other members of IRIS executive committee on what IRIS has done to adapt to the ever changing next normal.
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IRIS Live: How to strengthen your company for international growth during COVID-19
The acceleration of digital adoption is enabling companies to expand and grow their business internationally, but how do companies cater for international growth during COVID-19?
During the current economic uncertainty, companies need to continue strengthening their organisations, so that they may provide more flexibility to the workforce while executing operations at full speed if they are going to maximise their growth drivers.
In this session we hear from the leaders of companies who have used IRIS to support their international growth plans and provide insights on how to do this during COVID-19.
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IRIS Live: Digital acceleration of the back office
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown has accelerated the adoption of digital technologies by several years as businesses adjust to the next normal. The majority of this digitisation has been on the front office to enable businesses to continue to interact with customers etc. virtually, but what has the impact of COVID-19 restrictions and lockdown had on businesses back-office?
Hear from your fellow peers and IRIS experts on how businesses are accelerating their digital transformation of their back office, driving greater efficiencies to thrive in the next normal.
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IRIS Live: Challenging the normal office and driving greater efficiencies in staff payroll
Payroll can be complex at the best of times, yet there are still a number of businesses that have predominately manual payroll processes dispite all automation available to them. When choosing an automated solution, is it best to utilise the best technology and continue with it in house or have someone else complete it for you as a service.
In this session we will challenging the normal office and discuss the merits from the various solutions to drive greater efficiencies in your staff payroll.
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IRIS Live: Payroll in the next normal
IRIS’ recent survey showed that a third of Payroll Professionals are worried about the future of payroll and what’s coming next.
That’s why we’ve teamed up the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP) to bring you the latest payroll legislation news, a CJRS update, help you get more from your payroll, and provide peace of mind about what’s next for payroll professionals.
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IRIS Live: Flexible working: birth of the new ‘home’ office environment
In order for businesses to survive the current pandemic they had to get their entire workforce to work from home over night. We’ve gone from a culture of office working to flexible and home working in an instant – it’s the biggest flexible working experiment in history but we don’t know the outcome of this yet. Are we seeing the end of the office and the birth of a new competitive advantage / working efficiencies for the long term?
Join our round table discussion as our experts discuss the birth of the new home office and whether this will be a good thing for companies and employees.
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IRIS Live: Creating strategic advantage from the COVID-19 situation
Even as companies focus on the immediate business shocks, they need to plan for the postcrisis world. The experience of the fast movers out of the last recession teaches business leaders emerging from this one to take thoughtful actions to balance growth, margins, and optionality.
But where should firms look for opportunities during the COVID-19 pandemic? In this session we explore how companies can create a strategic advantage for their infrastructure and assets.
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IRIS Live: Agile business planning in a rapidly changing world
Rarely have business leaders and financial professionals face more complex, changing conditions than they have during the COVID-19 pandemic. Businesses have had to adapt quickly to survive, but this has brought about it’s own set of challenges to providing insights to the financial future of the company.
With the economic landscape in constant flux, how do you ensure your business plan, forecast and budget processes are agile to withstand the market trends? Hear from your professional peers on how they have achieved agile business planning in a rapidly changing business world.
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IRIS Live: Day in the life of a small business
For small businesses to beat the 1 in 5 survival odds, you need to pick the right technology partner to support you and provide scale for growth.
In this session we hear from business owners the technology that runs their business throughout the day and the benefits of a single supplier relationship.
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IRIS Live: How to weather the storm
80% of small businesses fail in their first year and ~58% fail after five years in business according to the ONS. And these stats were all pre-covid!
Hear from the experts on how small businesses weather the turbulent covid pandemic storm and how technology can help.
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IRIS Live: Focusing on employee engagement and wellbeing at a time of crisis
Working virtually constantly is hard on employees and brings about a new set of engagement challenges. Research shows that more than 10 million UK workers could need mental health support post-COVID.
Join this session to hear how you ensure the well-being of your staff when they are working from home and what help is available.
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IRIS Live: The paperless environment anywhere
Managing a business and employees is difficult enough, let alone whilst everyone is at working from home.
During this session our experts will show how business owners can drive business success through virtual working and a paperless environment.
